Andrew Gertler’s AG Artists and Ziggy Chareton Team Up to Manage Lauren Spencer-Smith, JP Saxe and Shawn Mendes
28.06.2022 - 18:23
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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs part of a big expansion of Shawn Mendes manager Andrew Gertler’s AG Artists, the company has signed fast-rising Canadian singer-songwriter Lauren Spencer-Smith and Arista’s JP Saxe, and Mendes’ longtime A&R Ziggy Chareton has joined as a partner on their management. Chareton will also co-manage Mendes.Gertler and Chareton have a long history together: They met in the early 2010s when both were interns in Atlantic Records’ marketing department.
In 2014, they brought a 15-year-old Mendes to Island Records, where Chareton had been hired as an A&R rep. Gertler had seen a YouTube clip of Mendes singing Great Big World’s “Say Something,” looped in Chareton, and convinced the young singer’s parents to bring him to New York to meet with Island’s then-CEO David Massey.
Mendes signed with Island almost immediately and the rest, as they say, was history: Within a year Mendes became a major star, and within two a global superstar; he has 23 RIAA-certified multiplatinum or gold records to his credit. Yet this move is a major one for the company.
Powered by her smash single “Fingers Crossed,” Vancouver native Spencer-Smith has rapidly become one of the breakout stars of 2022, with nearly half a billion TikTok views and 100 million streams for the song and a new single, “Flowers,” is rising fast. She performed at the Juno Awards last month. Saxe, whose collaboration with Julia Michaels, “If the World Was Ending,” was nominated for the Grammy Song of the Year, received five Juno nominations and won Breakthrough Artist of the Year.
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